Hospital (community of Weitra)

Spital ( village ) locality cadastral community Spital
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Gmünd  (GD), Lower Austria
Judicial district	Gmünd in Lower Austria
Pole. local community	Weitra
Coordinates	48 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  N , 14 ° 55 ′ 1 ″  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  N , 14 ° 55 ′ 1 ″  E
height	650  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	211 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	79 (2001)
Area  d. KG	5.46 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code	03734
Cadastral parish number	07337
Counting district / district	Hospital (30 942 004)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; NÖGIS

Spital bei Weitra is a cadastral community of Weitra in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria with around 220 inhabitants.

history

Spital is one of the oldest places in the Waldviertel, which, according to tradition, was originally called "Schön Blumau". The hospital was probably founded in the middle of the 12th century and donated to the Order of St. John in Prague by Hadmar II von Kuenring around 1200 . After the Coming Mailberg had been incorporated, a hostel (hospital) for pilgrims was built at the fork of the Böheim and Polansteig, which is how the place got its name.

location

The place is about 4 km southeast of Weitra, away from Greiner Straße 119 , which leads past to the east, and is surrounded by forests and meadows. St. Wolfgang is three kilometers to the west and Mistelbach is 1.5 km to the southeast .

Worth seeing

Parish church hl. John the Baptist

The parish church Spital bei Weitra is a Romanesque one dedicated to St. St. John the Baptist Eastern Tower Church , which was expanded to include a late Gothic choir . In the tower yoke there are remarkably high quality frescoes from the 14th century (~ 1360).

literature

• Berndl, Herbert: St. Wolfgang bei Weitra: Parish and pilgrimage church to St. Wolfgang with chapter on Spital bei Weitra , Salzburg: Verlag St. Peter, 2003
• Federal Monuments Office : Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube , Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2
• Franz Eppel : The Waldviertel, its works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Revised and expanded by Gertrud Eppel and Wilhelm Zotti. 9th revised edition. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1989, ISBN 3-900173-01-X .

Personalities

• Inge Krenn, author of numerous cookbooks with recipes from the Waldviertel , was born here.
• Klara Hitler , mother of the later dictator Adolf Hitler . She was born in Spital, as were other ancestors of Hitler.

Web links

• Entry for the hospital (community of Weitra) in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.burgseite.com/faschen/faces_txt.htm
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.